We’re honest, creative, technical and intent on growing your business. We work with small to medium sized businesses throughout Suffolk who want to invest in moving their business forward online and generate more leads and sales.

As well as developing great websites, we really enjoy working on projects or campaigns which combine both online and offline design and give your project or campaign a truly integrated approach.

Our designers are well-versed and experienced in designing for print and can’t wait to get their creative juices flowing for both online and offline design projects alike.

We don’t only design and build awesome websites and systems, we are also pretty good at driving traffic to them and converting visits into sales. By using all or some digital marketing techniques, we can help your beautiful, shiny new website to really achieve it’s potential.

3 ways to improve your local SEO

Local Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is a vitally important marketing strategy for website owners who are looking to sell their product or service to local customers.

If you’re not appearing when someone types in a local search term – think terms such as ‘locksmith Ipswich’ or ‘locksmith near me’ – you’re missing out on quality traffic, increased brand awareness and most importantly, you’re leaving money on the table.

Here are 3 ways you can increase your rankings in local search results.

Meta titles and descriptions

Title and description tags are two of the most important elements in on-page SEO. Both the title and description appear on the search engine results page, with the title in blue text and the description in black text beneath the URL. The title of your page also appears in the tab of your browser.

Because of this, titles and descriptions are tremendously important factors to encourage people to click through to your website from search results. In addition, they help Google to identify what your web page is all about, so it’s vitally important that you include the terms you want to rank for (e.g. Locksmith Ipswich) in them.

Google My Business

Google is the most widely used search engine on the planet. As a result, it’s important to use any tools that Google gives you to increase your opportunity of being found in their search results.

Google My Business is a free tool for businesses. Joining Google My Business will allow you to verify your business locations, increasing the possibility of getting found when local people type in terms such as ‘locksmith near me’. Location verification also leads to Google displaying your business on Google Maps.

Last but not least, joining Google My Business enables you to edit specific business information presented to visitors who type your business name into Google search.

NAP Information

In SEO terms, NAP refers to Name, Address and Phone Number. If you’re looking to appear for local search terms, it’s vitally important that Google knows your business location. Google picks up NAP information from your website and other websites linking to you.

A citation is a mention of your NAP information on websites linking to you. By ensuring NAP information is consistent across your website, your social profiles and websites linking to you, you’re increasing the opportunity of being found for local search terms.

Paul Mayne

Paul heads up Creative Intent as Managing Director. Paul has been working in the design and marketing industry since 2003, starting off as a graphic designer before completing a Diploma in Web Design in 2005. After spending 4 years as a web designer, Paul became the general manager of a local web agency before founding Creative Intent in 2011.